Yarnivorous

G'day all! Starting to get over the initial shock of my new diagnosis and status. Now I have to wait for the next step in January. Thank you all for the encouraging words. I hope I can, ahem, live up to your expectations :-) But much more exciting this evening was this: taken on my PiL's balcony. That is a tawny frogmouth . They are not at all endangered (they seem to have worked out how to live with humans and their cities) but it is still lovely to see them. We only went looking cos they seemed to be saying 'hip hip HOORAY!' which seemed a little odd quite frankly. MiL thought they would be possums (proper possums not this opossum stuff that is quite frankly a little scary - I rode past a dead, bloated up one once and it was about as big as a medium sized dog!) having an argument. No, instead it was three tawny frogmouths. Two were flying around together and a third was trailing along. They looked like gargoyles on the roof nextdoor. They were all talking t...

G'day all! Thanks to all those who commented on my Hey Mooch! :-) Last week, as I've mentioned before, I went for a ride up the Los Gatos Creek trail (I've blogged a whole heap of pics at my other blog ). I thought it would be very pleasant to do a little knitting whilst sitting by the lakeside. Little did I know of the horror approaching me! It seemed friendly enough: Pretty curious even. It brought a friend. The friend was pretty bored - it seemed to be saying "Let's go, love, this is dull! You brought along a snack but I didn't!" Then another friend showed up And some more (Don't you love the feet on these coots? Blue and black stripes) and another and a few more came to join the party.* Let me tell you that I was really glad that not all of these ones saw me sitting on that park bench, swinging my legs (bit of an erosion problem on their part, not mine!). There is nothing quite like having several hundred hungry birds all running at you at the...